Financial Sustainability Collaborative for Administrative and Organizational Effectiveness

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Financial Sustainability Collaborative for Administrative and Organizational Effectiveness

Expert-led workshops to identify and size administrative savings opportunities at your institution

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Participate in EAB’s Financial Sustainability Collaborative for Administrative and Organizational Effectiveness to assess the overall fitness of critical administrative functions and quantify savings opportunities.

For over a decade, improving administrative efficiency and effectiveness has been a top-of-mind concern for institutions of all sizes. Headlines decry administrative bloat and point to rising tuition costs; meanwhile institutional budgets continually tighten. With ever-increasing resignation concerns and permanent pandemic-induced operational changes, now is the time to identify meaningful opportunities for improvement. University business leaders need to find administrative savings opportunities for their universities to grow.

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Our administration is already lean, and I have no idea where to start to recoup meaningful savings across our multiple units. Where are my biggest opportunities?

– Chief Business Officer, Public University

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About the collaborative

EAB’s Financial Sustainability Collaborative for Administrative and Organizational Effectiveness will bring 30 university partners together to size administrative savings opportunities. Aimed at business affairs leaders, your CBO or equivalent will serve as an executive sponsor and nominate an implementation leader to participate in the collaborative. Through the collaborative, you will work through a set curriculum, collect campus data, and use EAB-designed workbooks to calculate your savings. With our expert guidance, you’ll complete three analyses during the Collaborative:

  • Calculate opportunities to centralize administrative tasks
  • Benchmark managerial effectiveness
  • Leverage momentum for flex work and identify opportunities to reclaim space

Workshops and programming to help size your administrative savings opportunities

1. Enhance organizational effectiveness and capacity

  • Complete distributed staff analysis to surface opportunities to centralize work and unlock additional staff capacity
  • Benchmark manager-to-staff ratios to scale managerial effectiveness and strategically re-deploy staff

2. Leverage momentum for flex work and reclaim space

  • Inventory current administrative and academic office allocation
  • Calculate reclaimable administrative and academic space across multiple hybrid work and re-allocation models

3. Make the case for change on campus based on customized findings

  • Share custom findings with the cohort, and understand where to prioritize your efforts in a capstone activity
  • Learn how to make the case for change on campus

Build new capabilities in EAB's implementation collaboratives

Simplify decision-making and motivate change using a principled framework and objective data

Accelerate best practice implementation in an expert-led, cohort-based workshop experience

Expand your skills and capacity with expert coaching and project management support

How to participate

If you are interested in participating in the next cohort of our administrative financial sustainability collaborative, please fill out the form below or email [email protected].

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